Review Asus Zenbook 14 OLED (UX3405M) review: Great specs for the right price

[Admin]

The Asus Zenbook 14 OLED is a thin and light ultraportable with a colorful display and solid specs for the price, but it can throttle under load.

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[Giroro]

It looks like the last-gen 13500H/8GB/512GB version of this laptop is being cleared out at $500 at Best Buy.
That's a pretty impressive OLED screen for the price, if the lower specs aren't a problem for you.

 

[Notton]

It looks like the last-gen 13500H/8GB/512GB version of this laptop is being cleared out at $500 at Best Buy.
That's a pretty impressive OLED screen for the price, if the lower specs aren't a problem for you.

Isn't that the 14X (UX3404) model?
Either way, the 8GB of RAM on that is not upgradeable, unless you can solder BGA.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

I've been using this laptop for a month and it's pretty nice. You can eek out a bit more performance if you put it on full power mode.

 

[Doug_30]

I recently bought an Asus M1505 OLED, which appears to be very similar. Nice machine that meets my needs well. Also at (much) less than $1k It was very cheap and I'm happy to overlook the following two items for the price I paid.

One significant issue that maybe others should be aware of is that the m.2 port appears to be PCIe 4 with only 2 lanes enabled. I put in a 1TB WD Black that "should" run about 5GBs but the absolute best I have been able to squeeze out of it is 1.8GBps read.

Disappointing, I guess, but not a big problem for me - others may find this to be a show stopper.

Oh and one other thing - the "baby BIOS" is completely inadequate with little or no access to most of the settings I'm used to playing with.

I do like it a lot though, spite of those two nits

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Asus sells the Zenbook 14 OLED with a one-year warranty.

1. To further maximize the protection of your OLED laptop, ASUS has included OLED Care settings such as pixel refresh and pixel shifting, which are turned on by default. It’s important to note that if any burn-in issues do occur within the warranty period, which might vary by countries, ASUS offers a free exchange service for the affected OLED laptop as long as the user did not manually turn off the OLED Care functions.

1 year warranty on an OLED screen? Think I'll pass.

 

[dimar]

I expect a laptop with a decent CPU to last at least 7 years. I'd stay away from any laptop where the RAM, SSD, Wi-Fi, battery is not upgradable, or difficult to access for maintenance, especially when the screen has great quality.